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“The biggest struggle for me is just being faced with the question ‘Am I doing the right thing?’ every single day,” said April Absynth who is currently featured as Jacque in the comedy-drama Blindspotting. In a rare portrayal of a Filipino family on mainstream television, April’s character and her father, played by Dante Basco, figure in an episode.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 continued its winning streak at the China box office with a total gross of $59.

Stories of motherhood and family are popular and wide-ranging. In honoring of Mother’s Day, below is an overview of some movies on the theme from the dramatic to the heartwarming to the utterly comedically outrageous.

According to the history books, Catherine the Great was only 16 when she married Peter III, the heir to the throne of Russia. Actress Elle Fanning wasn’t much older when she stepped into the shoes of the woman who led a rebellion against her husband to eventually ascend to the throne as the title character in the Hulu series, The Great.

Long before the new generations of Americans discovered Chile, thanks to Pedro Pascal, another actress born in the Southern Cone caused a sensation in Hollywood and forced many to look at the map. Her name is Leonor Varela.

It's the film that made the world fall in love with Audrey Hepburn and want to buy a Vespa.   William Wyler's 1953 Roman Holiday has met brilliantly the test of time and this year celebrates its 70th anniversary.

While the Writer’s Strike marches on with no end in sight affecting over 20,000 writers in the Writers Guild of America, one such writer is Albert Kim, showrunner, Executive Producer and writer of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Sleepy Hollow, and Nikita. For Kim, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

One of the most powerful elements of cinema is how it brings languages, costumes, and stories to audiences all over the world. Tizuka Yamasaki, the granddaughter of a Japanese couple, born in the south of Brazil, at the height of the coffee wave does exactly this in her work.

“From Asian Excellence to Creative Excellence,” a panel that featured actor-producer-activist Daniel Dae Kim; host-producer-author Padma Lakshmi; Eric Nam, singer, actor, co-founder and creative director of Mindset, artist-driven mental wellness audio platform; and Janet Yang, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, was one of the highlights of the 2023 Global Conference. Curtis S.

“After a year of imprisonment and impoverishment – because they took everything from us, the government comes down with a loyalty questionnaire demanding loyalty. ”, Takei told the HFPA in an exclusive interview with Brent Simon.